Conor Branagan and Kevin Abraham discuss the benefits of integrating Fastly with Datadog, an edge cloud platform that includes a content delivery network (CDN), as well as services for image optimization, video streaming, cloud security, and load balancing. The integration allows users to visualize, analyze, and alert on Fastly metrics and logs in context with monitoring data from across their stack, enabling them to resolve issues before they degrade the user experience. With Datadog's tag-based alerting system, users can create sophisticated monitors for their Fastly services, which can notify them when specific metrics pass a user-defined threshold or behave anomalously. The integration also enables users to pivot seamlessly between Fastly metrics and related logs, allowing them to better understand concerning activity and troubleshoot effectively. Additionally, Datadog's Observability Pipelines allow users to extract key metrics from their Fastly logs without ingesting them into the platform, providing a cost-effective solution for managing log volume. Overall, the integration provides full visibility into the health and performance of Fastly services, enabling users to isolate bottlenecks, streamline their troubleshooting process, and reduce their mean time to resolution (MTTR).